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What do you guys think will be the next big thing in crypto? IMO it's going to be security tokens, microchains/sidechains (like MOAC), cross-chain compatibilities of public blockchains, and gaming/collectibles (like Gods Unchained)

What about you guys?

Security tokens are being discuss early as now for the year of 2019 and I think it will be big as well.

Companies would adopt blockchain and they will integrate it as usual with crypto which will allow them to share their companies vision through blockchain technology. ICOs are no longer going on hype by next year though.

Very soon, we are going to be seeing more projects that are subject to regulations. Such as STO. Some projects that are STO based are now currently being lunched into the crypto space. I know of Desico and Sovren and there are still others and more to come.

I think adoption of blockchain technology will be the next advancement, projects that focuses on the blockchain development will get more attention
There will be a cleansed out of the pump and dumps tokens
and the get rich scheme mentality will be erased from investors mind, positive vibes all around cryto currency.

Cross chain still not yet released and i think that trend will be about any blockchain service that focused to build an economic related project.
Crypto kitties sucks basically it's still useless for me personally. We are looking for the utility token dude

it seems like safe tokens and ICO will become increasingly attractive in the following year, such as KYC developments in ICO projects that are actually too excessive

I guess security tokens like Zcash, Monero will be the next trend in crypto. In addition, Dan Larimer said, that he want to develop security crypto with super speed transactions.

Yes to security tokens and yes to more efficient and scalable public blockchains like MOAC. They actually have a webinar in like 30 minutes talking about their project - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5078377.new#new

I do have to look more into collectible though.

I think as time goes by, blockchain technology will be more attractive for wider adoption from time to time. And that cannot be denied at this time and in the future. Blockchain is indeed the real revolutionary.

any hyped up thing has a lifespan in this market which will run out soon enough. for ICOs it was mostly a year and then they died. for security tokens it will also be the same but the difference is that they made the mistake of starting the hype now that the altcoin market is in dumping mode so there is a good chance that it is not even going to pick up the hype and die in its infancy.

Blockchain/crypto itself is a trend, why bother to create some "trends"? As long as blockchain technology is still evolving, it will always be a trend.

Yes there are a lot of opportunities awaiting for zcash and Monero might trend in upcoming days. Monero has already been a hot topic regarding mining as it gives a good profit.

I agree. The stereotyping will be gone and so as the self interest. Everything will be in order and not in chaos. We can expect people started to adopt blockchain and so as using it day by day as a means in doing transactions in exchange of goods. People do not give attention to the cryptocurrency today, then tomorrow they will.

All the while, there are speculations. Now we are speculating trending tokens. 2019 is just around the corner though. For me, the talk in town is security tokens.

I am seeing 3 strong crypto trends next year.

1) First is stable coins. People need a way to mitigate the risks of high volatility in crypto markets. Up until now USDT did a great job but since it is evading external audits, people are moving to other stablecoins. Especially those audited by Govt. organizations. It's kinda a funny irony that when it comes to trust of funds, then people still trust Govt. organizations. Even crypto people!!!

2) Side chains and other methods to reduce load on main chains and increase scalability. This is especially true for ETH. Other chains like Steem are moving in the direction of pruning their blockchain data.

3) Crypto gaming. This is certainly going to be a big trend. Be it Steem, EOS, ETH, NEO, Tron or other smart contract based chains. All of them are indirectly or directly involving in this gaming sector. Tron even announced a $100M fund for this!! EOS based VCs invested $16M in a game to be launched on EOS. And on ETH we already know so many big games are launching next year like Gods Unchained, Hash Rush, War Riders etc.

That's just my personal opinions based on news articles from sites like Cointelegraph and Coindesk.

Now the biggest problem is network scalability. For example ETH is now faced with this problem. If they decide it, its price will rise again.

I think it will be the Security tokens industry and atomic swaps, but it's just my perception.

From the investment side there a lot of participants genuinely interested in the security tokens industry, from the development side there a lot of people working on atomic swaps.

But... talking about trends I have found a report from CBInsights about trends in blockchain in 2019 you can check it and tell me what do you think,  it's a small report of 47 pages ;)

https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/blockchain-trends-2019/

Crypto which has POS terminal products and crypto ATM will become a trend in the future. I think products like this have great benefits and have the potential to be used directly by the community.

I think the next trend would be coin that could be able to scale in the span and with pace of the changing world. Coins that could easily verify transactions with in seconds and able to handle many transactions. I think decentralized exchanges would also be one thing to watch since there are many coins in the top 100 that has their own decentralized exchange platforms.

I think physical store with crypto payments will be a trend in the future. later on more organizations will embrace crypto payments it will make a chain reaction and a few organizations will likewise attempt the blockchain technology to have the capacity to compete with other existing organizations.

i think the ICO hype is still going to exist for a while longer before it dwindles and dies off but it won't be replaced by any alternative but similar methods! i think pretty soon we are going to see the coins that focus on payment systems (being a currency) can become the new hyped up topic. coins such as IOTA might be among those that get pumped up a lot or possible new coins similar to those.

ICO's are pretty much dead. We are now in a time of infrastructure where projects like MOAC will facilitate dapp development.

The blockchain outbreak has ended, and the next step may take two years. After two years, blockchain technology will begin to be used. But the cryptocurrency market may take off again in 2019, and STO brings new opportunities, which is good news for investors.

STOs are starting to give hint but I just want to say that lets all wait for next year and see what will be the next trend.

And to Moac supporters, just pure discussion and dont shill that coin.

According to the last report of coinmarketcap, the next trend are the security tokens. But I am afraid that this is going to be the new start of the fraud projects. We need to find some option of how to regulate different ICO projects.

yes I also think so, many predict that more security tokens are asked because the business opportunities that are owned are far greater than other concepts.

I don't want to predict the future of any cryptocurrency. I prefer to talk about the facts I can see. I think the next trend in the market will inevitably happen after the ETF is approved!

in my opinion cryptocurrency focused on Security and Gaming industries will be the next trend on crypto world my friend  ;)

I think it will be a complete and best financial ecosystem . Any solid project with a better financial system then the traditional fiat thing, will hit big time and make crypto adoption way easier and better. So, I believe in a system with more digital assets price stability and backed with real precious assets like gold. Plus a sure way to convert the crypto into fiat any time wanted...

Honestly, I see this future in the Gigzi project. It will help us financially and consolidate crypto adoption too..

The next trend to be is that the government will get into the crypto thingy like securities and regulation, and most scam cryptos and tokens will be burned out. STO and equity shares are of the next big thing for crypto. Cross-chains, side-chains, atomic-swap, scalability improvement and merchant tie-ups are in the process of development but this will be the trend for upcoming years.

I think that security tokens will be the next big trend in crypto. They will be regulated and they will attract many
institutional investors as well and it can be a game changer to this market situation we have.

Most of what i have been seeing now and that i see investors having interest in are STOs. Right now, the trend of things are beginning to change. Even if investors are going to invest in ICOs, they have to comply with some regulations. As for STOs, they are already compliant. This makes it safe for investors not to fall victim of scam projects that are almost all over.

I think there's lots of potential in securities, sure. But infrastructure blockchains are going to be big. My favorite are EOS and MOAC atm.

I guess ICO regulations are going to be implemented since there is a lot of news about the sec's activity in the past months, there might be a more secured ICO and project implementation that awaits.

The coins that performed the best in this year were the coins that are designed to be very stable, I believe that the next trend during the next year are going to be decentralized exchanges, people are going to try to find a way to trade their coins without having to go through centralized exchanges, that is why I have invested a significant amount of my money in some of those coins.

yeah ...
blockchain project based on infrastructure will be huge in the future maybe started in 2019,,
i think a huge project based on infrastructure will be born in 2019,,  ;)

The technology of Blockchain will gradually be applied in life. It does everything well. But I think the security element is a necessity  8)

The event I can predict now is probably STO. I think this may be the best explosion point in 2019, but now I am not sure that STO will be popular around the world. If it can be achieved, the cryptocurrency will take off again.

MOAC and EOS. I see them going head to head in the upcoming year

As far as I have seen most of the utility tokens right now are dropping low. But compared to security token, the token that is on security token when we see on the market is dropping but just low compared to utility token. I think security tokens are the next trend.

The problem is that already existing ideas are not brought to a logical conclusion. Very few projects have released the final product, which will be claimed by mankind. I think we should wait, what will come of it and whether it will find real use. And only after that, talk about new ideas.

I know that MOAC rolled out mainnet like half a year ago. Also announced a partnership today: https://medium.com/oathprotocol/oath-protocol-and-moac-team-up-in-strategic-partnership-f38427784a17

Security tokens looks quite promising now.
Also decentralised exchanges are quite interesting sphere imho.
I wonder how this all will evolve and what we'll see here next.

securities are going to be pretty hot in the next few years. Good alternatives to public blockchains for dapps are going to be huge as they all scale their communities. Have my eyes on MOAC and EOS

Security tokens are gaining popularity so we will probably see more STOs in the future.
Cross-chain of public blockchains could also be a thing in the future but maybe in five years?
The others, I have no idea if they'll ever become a trend.

I believe that the future of cryptos is currently in the security tokens and transactions, it is important to emphasize that until now we do not have all the usability that can be given to cryptos, so in the future, we can discover usefulness that we would not even imagine now.

Given that the cryptocurrency increasingly falls under the influence of various regularities, security tokens will develop very rapidly in the near future. Also, in Russia, cryptocurrency is imposed, which will increase the popularity of security tokens.

Perhaps innovation and demand will be an innovation aimed at improving security for investors, as this will attract big money in cryptocurrency, and add a positive image.
also reduce the possibility for the implementation of the scam, that is, any restrictions or a set of measures for teams planning to implement the project and ICO
something in that direction

I still believe in coin to use more work in this life than coin in a certain field. Because it can grow fast at any time, similar to the Nano, it can be used and applied in many areas, and most of the areas are very necessary nowadays as fast and less fee

Security tokens sound plausible indeed, but I really think that the coin (or type of coin) that causes a massive bull run hasn't been developed yet.
It probably will be something rather simple and stay under the radar, but when the time comes everyone will be like "how we didn't think of it before?!".

Also, I think ICOs still be relevant when the devs are honest and ask as much money as they really need. Greed is often times the reason why nice things come to an end and fail.

I think more attention will be directed to regulations and cleaning the market from scam projects and shit coins. It will be a time of keeping promises from crypto teams.

The next big thing in blockchain will be tokenization. Real usage of the technology for different purposes in the industry. It could be a game changer for mass adoption.

I am on the same page but to add to that, I think platforms like MOAC that allow companies to build their own dapps without having to worry about scalability and trust are going to be huge.

so far only support for technology, games and also several platforms. maybe in the future, blockchain / crypto should be more directed to their functional as a payment tool that is often used.

Recently, there was  a lot of news that security tokens will not be in demand either, and STO is a format that will not work

It looks like this token is interesting because, in terms of the concept it is also good and can be used for many things I want to use it, but I also wait for the others to be afraid there are still many good ones and that's where I get confused which one to choose,
I'll try to be more sensitive in choosing it later.

The next trend in the blockchain will be highly revolutionary and will be adopted in the every sector of the industry. But the token market will exist or not no one can tell now completely. Every country is now look out for adopting this sophisticated technology without the allowing of cryptocurrency. If this will possible then the demand for the crypto market will no more grow.

Next trend in crypto will be finding another job while investing in crypto. That is the only chance for crypto to grow again.

well, i feel that games field will be expanded as well as security tokens, we need it badly anyway. blockchain will take some unexpeted turn, i don't know why though. just prediction ;)

For those of you that are looking at MOAC, this is a post they published recently: https://medium.com/moac/explaining-moacs-ground-breaking-technology-95362b8aa99a

I am trying to envisage what will be so common by next year. I believe so many ICOs will be forced to pack off by the time regulations set in. By then STOs will be trending. Although there will still be ICOs that will be regulated as well.

I guess I much prefer to have more regularities in ICO to figure out scam project to increase the reliability of the ICOS in order for the market value of altcoins and bitcoin to increase. I guess FUD's affects too much.

One of the new trend on blockchain/crypto is CoinBundle (https://app.coinbundle.com/signup?ref=GbilASc06z9MvDBxOoBlc4iDCT3uw2odDfb157vwFMN3GHFGvr9JHCU0tfIjGDd7%2B%2BZh6JWGaICw%2FTDG68Y5Sku2Ch8h4QNka6BLCSOm4hs%3D), which began the market of instead of choosing on which coin to invest, investing in a bundle of selected stable/thematic coins.

If you're interested, they're giving $5 / 100 BNDL according to some investment.

We can see security token which was talking everywhere. So I think it will be a trend for 2019. I also hope that a new trend will appear soon  and it will give us a bright future for crypto market  :D

Nowadays there are a lot of rumors about STO trends and regulators is coming it is indisputable

I'm voting for a medical referral. At the moment, this is the most urgent problem and at the same time the most profitable area.

I think the next stage in the development of blockchain / crypto should be the introduction of STO (Security Token Offering), which can involve institutional capital in the crypto market. The ICOs have compromised themselves and are unlikely to be able to reach the values of 2017. In November, the minimum inflow of capital in ICO projects was recorded, totaling $ 62 million. STO will be able to solve the ICO problems, but SEC will have to lower the entry threshold for investors, because now, according to the rules, investors must have an annual income of more than $ 200,000 per person or $ 300,000 for a married couple, or the presence of more than $ 1 million.

As everyone will guess, the next trend will be regulated ICOs. And also i think the cross-chains blockchains will come to a very important point. Because we need it in terms of usability.

I think many projects are based on blockchain. I hope it would be turning point proof of success in future.

Not sure what will happen in crypto, but there are a lot of trends that can occur in the blockchain. For example, we can see trends such as a rise in adoption of hybrid and federated blockchain. We will also see an increase in blockchain as a service and Ricardian contracts adoption.

You mentioned MOAC and securities and they just announced that RAC, a securities platform, is partnering with MOAC, the commercial dapp platform. Securities and MOAC are both going to be big in the future imo.

https://www.strictlycrypto.com/rac-announces-collaboration-and-investment-from-moac-foundation/

Thats true.  The use of blockchain is very broad, can be used as a booster to increase the utility of a system. One of the advantages is the ability to verify information or data in real time. I think this trend that will continue to be popular is if it is used in the online trading system, jobs market, etc.

I believe there'll be greater adoption of blockchain technology owing to the vast possibility attached to them compared to that of the contemporary technology. With this drive; we'll see exchange of views that will lead to innovations in the cryptosphere.

These innovations will result into an increased regulation of most aspect of the platform; which will bring about trust, belief and increased investments from the Fiat world. This i see as a viable trend for the growth of the crypto community.

The next big thing on the cryptocurrency market that will please everyone is the growth of the cryptocurrency market. Everyone is waiting for this event and hoping for it.

It is not known what will be the next trend, until regulators come, manipulators will work, who in principle will not care for new technologies in this area.

Yes, it is not clear what the next trend of cryptocurrency is. STO has also begun to shake, because STO can still have scams, so these will not be a trend of cryptocurrency, I think the next one The trend may be the large-scale use of blockchains.

Funny that MOAC partnered with a securities platform recently  8)

securities are coming and it's good that platforms are taking advantage of that

Anyone have the article talking about the extend of that partnership??

here ya go https://coinrivet.com/rac-links-up-with-moac-foundation/

if we can get infrastructure together with dapp platforms like moac and then mix it in with securities. we have gold imo

Couldn't agree more. 2019 will be the year of adoption and building. I think MOAC has a good chance since they have such a strong presence in china

Yes, I agree with you about security tokens. I think after their legal appearance huge institutional investors will enter cryptoeconomy. It could be the first step for starting a new bullrun.

I think that there was still no really loud noise about anonymous coins and 2019 should be the year of anonymous coins

I think that security tokens will be the next mega trend of the blockchain revolution as they are regulated and they
will attract institutional investors to the market. And the market needs them to be able to grow again.

I think due to the last CMC report, the next trend is going to be the security tokens and I think we are going the right way. Hope this falling market will end soon and we will see the new raise of crypto currencies.

My thought about next trend is mass adoption. We are entering another stage when mass use of Cryptocurrency for daily transactions will  significantly increase and many organizations and established businesses ventures will integrate Cryptocurrency especially Bitcoin into their payment system.

in my opinion something big will be in vain if it doesn't develop or at least has the core to support the development of the blockchain. The point is that any big thing that will come should be able to bring up the core of all the thing today, which is "blockchain"

I am intrigued with MOAC because they have lots of support and adoption in china. i think they even came out with a book that details their use cases

Reminds me of the time when NEO had their ICO. Chinese projects have lots of potential imo

I'd like to see many real DEXes with fast and direct coin swap without middleman. I suppose that govenments won't be glad to have such a services, buth nevertheless I can't see the following development of the crypto industry without this significant and very serious shift.

that and stablecoins. but right now i'm focused on infrastructure with projects like eos, eth, and moac

And i should remind you when PBOC forced NEO to return all of the money that has raised during ico to the investors again, they have no money to create a proper development progress. that's so sad and then NEO getting plunged to the bottom.

Have you looked into moac? chinese project too

yea great project. chinese ones are always hit or miss but this one's a gem  ;D

Nowadays people are more or less concerned about privacy as well as traceability.
They would rather like to see such innovative approach implemented on new cryptos than same type circulating around with different names, rehashing the code again and again with old stuffs.

Also there will be more trends similar to CryptoKitties popping up on various platforms (Dapps) and might continue thriving just like CK.

I think that the next most relevant industry in which blockchains will be used - this will be the establishment of interactions between different blockchains among themselves and teaching them to interact using artificial intelligence. I think this is the most likely immediate problem that will need to be solved.

exactly. cross-chain compatibility is going to be huge. I like that MOAC offers that

I think it will be proof of authentication. People are facing a lot of issue with copyright. Since, a court in China has asked people can use blockchain based proof for this issue, it will be popular. I am using DeepVault and I don't need to go to a physical office and the cost is cheaper.

I believe this year would be great and too far from last year event. A lot of changes may occurs which highly uncorrelated to the situation we struggled last year.
I've seen strong support from the community, investors and as well as the devs team behind,  pumps will come along and it show us surprisingly.

I think that decentralized platform platforms will be popular next year. I think this is the next level of development of distributed ledgers. I like projects related to this. For example, ProximaX.

Blokchain as a kind of new paradigm of existence is a thing that will penetrate everywhere soon. Whenever I think about the blockchain, the Avatar film comes to my mind, people there had a very subtle relationship with everything that exists, and it seems to me that in the future, thanks to the blockchains, in our society will be realized some kind of reality which was described in this film.

stablecoin is the new trend from the end of 2018 until now, I have seen a lot of stablecoin created in this market and now more and more stablecoin is created to serve the market and remove USDT it from its dominance

Trends are set by time. As we can see, currently popular stablecoin trading volume and transactions which increased 10 times over the past 2 months. Pretty good results.

This will be taxation and regulation. This is the only way to achieve development and progress for future growth.

I think stablecoins are pretty hot right now. Good to keep an eye on projects like MOAC since they provide infrastructure. Saw that they announced a huge partnership with chinamobile (basically the verizon of china) on coindesk. https://www.coindesk.com/telecom-giant-china-mobile-is-developing-a-blockchain-water-purifier?from=groupmessage&isappinstalled=0

any state will have a desire to control the cryptocurrency market, and this in turn will greatly affect ordinary users of cryptocurrency. In addition to taxes, there should still be legal support, as well as reducing fraudsters in the company's ico market.

As they become accepted by governments and the general public, regulation will come into play a lot more.

To get things right is a balancing act, too much regulation, and the industry gets stifled, too little and people get scammed.

The authorities know an outright ban in their country would drive money out into neighbouring countries that are more crypto-friendly.

This article https://cryptomenow.com/poland-begins-to-draw-up-a-crypto-tax-plan/ (https://cryptomenow.com/poland-begins-to-draw-up-a-crypto-tax-plan/) shows that governments are treading carefully because they too want to benefit.

i still bet for infrastructure project will be the next trend in blockchain
because in the future a lot of things will be tokenized my friend,
so, an infrastructure project with dapps will be huge  ;)
regards

Regulation will be following the framework has created by the regulators. It's the regulators rights. The next big thing should be about the result in the blockchain development such as the product that used blockchain. I wanna see this happen.

For ICO or STOs more of the crowfund will be IEO in subsequent months, the crowd will feature better project valuation compare to previous years for start up.

Regulation process will takes a lot of time to search the result or just decline. If we finally regulated then, it surely there is a huge changes in prices as well as the fees collected.  Most specifically for the tax which people don't want it but we can't do nothing is to follow the rules or just leave crypto forever.
Blockchain technology is growing and makes a lot of individuals get interest and so the government for a big money they might collected. Expect  more chnages in the future.

Security tokens are going to be the next big thing in our industry, according to the Coinmarketcap review. They were right, because I see a lot of new projects that are aiming to get their piece of pie in the security trend.

It's pretty hard to come up with that. If I would have known I would have started to create your project, because it's easy money. When something enters the trend, even a bad product can make money.

Actually, what was the situation in 2016, when, with a good pr-campaign of the entire cryptocurrency market, even bad projects could attract investors. Perhaps this is what influenced the current situation with the cryptocurrency market.

You mentioned MOAC. Thoughts on that project?

looks like investor affraid put their money into new projects.most of them was scamm and didnt give any profit.investing in coins at top 20 cmc could be good choice for them.

I vote that the next trend in the crypto sphere will be the system for the protection of personal data provided at the ICO stage or for any other reason, the bookmaker/poker room and so on.

Very similar to the truth, because I see that today a very serious beginning begins again for a new wave of demand for cryptocurrency assets. I think that all this is not just and the wave has already begun. As long as we feel it is weak.

I would not make loud statements about the fact that this is a new wave. but I am sure that for several months we will see positive changes

That might depends, if that so, I guess stable coins would be a wide choice because, as we are humans, companies are too, and in that case, they will do everything to reduce the risk that they will going to take. So, they will stick to a static price and will going utilize a bunch of stable coins, maybe, bitcoin might be useful, but I guess ETH also.

The main problem that will appear in the near future is the control over the KYC. Now they are trying to introduce a law that this procedure should become mandatory for all investors.

I think ETH promised the moon with its smart contracts capabilities. I still think it is underused right now. But I think moving away from traditional block chain, other platforms with SC capabilities seems very excited. Two DAG based platforms with SC are Vite & Fantom. I don't follow FTM but I know the VITE is making great progress and is seeing some real world adoption. It also supports cross chain gateways so trading on its DEX will not be restricted to just Vite based tokens. I think this is very exciting!!

Hard to give opinion. But for the community seeking the decentralized system, this system may be a little heavy. Crypto community will not be pleased. Lets wait a little longer.

Submitting your KYC docs is an easy task but the security of your info is hard to know afterwards. Even if the project is authentic, we don't know the happenings in the backdoor. An employee might steal those data and sell to the highest bidder. We will never know such things.

But going back to the topic, I believe the new hype in crypto are IEOs not STOs. Projects after projects are realizing that they can get easy money by holding IEOs. IEOs masked the rising popularity of STOs.